Mac usage is on the rise: Study
COVID-19 has spurred the greatest movement of the workforce into their homes in all of history, and it’s now more important than ever to ensure the security of endpoints with enterprises adapting to work-anywhere workforces. In honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, market research firm Vanson Bourne and Jamf, the standard in Apple Enterprise Management, surveyed 1,500 IT and... By CIO&Leader
Ongoing vigilance and improvements characterize the state of cybersecurity in 2020: Study
More than ever, companies are accepting that digital business is the way of the future. Regardless of the industry, offering or customer base, digital tactics are needed to survive in a dynamic and unpredictable environment. With this in mind, cybersecurity moves from a piece of IT operations into an overarching business concern. From formal policies to specialized teams, organizations are... By CIO&Leader
Only 1 in 4 global organizations keep cardholder payment data secure: Study
Global organizations continue to put their customers’ cardholder data at risk due to a lack of long-term payment security strategy and execution, according to Verizon Business 2020 Payment Security Report (2020 PSR). With many companies struggling to retain qualified CISOs or security managers, the lack of long-term security thinking is severely impacting sustained compliance within the... By CIO&Leader
Cybersecurity remains a priority for investment among businesses: Study
Cybersecurity remains a priority for investment among businesses, according to Kaspersky’s report, titled ‘Investment adjustment: aligning IT budgets with changing security priorities’. Its share of IT spending has grown from 23% in 2019 to 26% in 2020 for SMBs, and from 26% to 29% for enterprises. 71% of organizations also expect their cybersecurity budget to grow further in the next three... By CIO&Leader
Spending on public cloud infra surpasses spending on traditional IT infra for first time in Q2, 2020: IDC
Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, increased 34.4% year over year in the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20), according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker. Investments in traditional, non-cloud, IT infrastructure declined 8.7% year over year in... By CIO&Leader
Building a robust multi-cloud environment with SD-WAN
Cloud adoption has become an increasingly large part of a CIO’s budget with organizations leveraging many different cloud environments to build their IT infrastructure. Nearly all enterprises have embraced multi-cloud—93% currently have a multi-cloud strategy in place. Organizations custom-select different cloud services to serve specific functions, as well as for larger... By Rajesh Maurya
COVID-19 helps to accelerate the shift to hosted and cloud collaboration solutions: SRG
Spending on UC collaboration tools grew 7% from the second quarter of 2019, reaching over USD 12 billion, according to new Q2 data from Synergy Research Group. Most notably spending on hosted & cloud solutions grew by 18% while spending on on-premise products declined by 18%. Hosted and cloud now accounts for over three quarters of the market. While most hosted and cloud segments are... By CIO&Leader
Financial risk and regulatory compliance professionals facing collaboration issues in the New Normal: Survey
After several months of working from home, with no clear end in sight, financial risk and regulatory compliance professionals are struggling when it comes to collaborating with their teams – particularly as they manage increasingly complex global risk and regulatory reporting requirements, according to a survey of major financial institutions conducted by AxiomSL. As per the survey, 41% of... By CIO&Leader
Organizations in India to spend nearly half of their cloud budget on hybrid over the next three years: Survey
Business executives in India are increasingly planning to invest in hybrid multi-cloud platform strategies and capabilities to drive business transformation and to unlock value, according to an IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) survey. The IBV surveyed Indian and global executives across industries to gain an in-depth understanding of their organizations’ current use of hybrid cloud,... By CIO&Leader
Global spending on Edge Computing to reach USD 250 billion in next four years: IDC
The concept of edge computing most often refers to intermediating infrastructure and critical services between core data centers and intelligent end points. Proliferating enterprise and consumer devices benefit from a digitally transformed technology world through edge capabilities. However, edge is defined as the compute, storage, and networking cornerstones gird data creation, analysis, and... By CIO&Leader
Cybersecurity skills gap threatens job effectiveness amidst increasing global cyber attacks: Survey
Cybersecurity skills gap threatens job effectiveness amidst increasing global cyber attacks, according to Cybrary’s Skills Gap Research Survey and Report. The report examines the current challenges, perceptions, and impacts of the cybersecurity skills gap faced by IT and security teams worldwide. The survey questioned respondents about the employer contributions towards their skill development,... By CIO&Leader